Wiertz Sebastien - Privacy by Sebastien Wiertz (CC BY 2.0) https://flic.kr/p/ahk6nh

Privacy

Telecom Policy Review Submissions

The Telecom Policy Review website now features dozens of submissions. My relatively short submission (relative to the 1000 page, 24 MB zipped submission from Bell Canada) is online. So too are submissions from CIPPIC (working with several groups) and all the other usual suspects. Comments on the submissions are due […]

August 16, 2005 — 1 comment — News

Electronic Binoculars: Surveillance and the Law

Canadian Bar Association 2005 Annual Meeting link

August 16, 2005 — Comments are Disabled — Conferences

Speaking Out on the Telecom Policy Review

My weekly Law Bytes column (freely available hyperlinked version, Toronto Star version) summarizes the key points in my submission to Canada’s Telecommunications Policy Review. The submission should be posted online within the next day or two [update: the submission is now online]. I argue that three principles should govern the […]

August 15, 2005 — 1 comment — Columns

Canadian Telecommunications Policy Needs New Roadmap

Appeared in the Toronto Star on August 15, 2005 as Why Broadband, Neutrality, Privacy Deserve Policy Boost This year’s federal budget generated more than its fair share of attention. Between Belinda Stronach’s switch to the Liberal Party and the drama surrounding the late Chuck Cadman’s vote, a single paragraph in […]

August 15, 2005 — Comments are Disabled — Columns Archive

LaForest Appointed To Review Info and Privacy Offices

Former Supreme Court justice Gerard Vincent LaForest was appointed today to study the prospect of combining the Information Commissioner and the Privacy Commissioner into a single office. Although that approach is used in many provinces, given the frustration experienced by the Information Commissioner in obtaining compliance (and an extension in […]

July 25, 2005 — Comments are Disabled — News